idaes SKILL.md skillA
idaes from jkitchin/knowhow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jkitchin/knowhow/idaes@git:20260307.3e74b2fPins git:20260307.3e74b2f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jkitchin/knowhow
- Path
skills/programming/idaes/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260307.3e74b2f, committed Mar 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Nov 29, 2025
- Size
- 19,956 bytes
- Repository stars
- 42
- License
- MIT
Comprehensive guidance for using IDAES (Institute for the Design of Advanced Energy Systems) for process systems engineering. Covers flowsheet modeling, property packages, unit models, optimization, scaling, initialization, and diagnostics. Use when working with chemical process simulations, energy systems modeling, power plant design, material and energy balances, or process optimization. Triggers include 'IDAES', 'flowsheet', 'process model', 'unit operation', 'process optimization'…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# IDAES Process Systems Engineering Systematic guidance for using IDAES to model, simulate, and optimize chemical processes and energy systems. ## IDAES Workflow ### 1. Identify Task Type **What do you want to do?** **Getting Started:** - Install and setup → `references/installation.md` - Understand core concepts → `references/core-concepts.md` - First flowsheet → `examples/simple_flowsheet.py` **Flowsheet Development:** - Build basic flowsheet → `references/flowsheets.md` - Add unit models → `references/unit-models.md` - Connect streams → `references/flowsheets.md` - Set up material/energy balances → `references/flowsheets.md` - Add time-dependent behavior → `references/dynamic-modeling.md` **Property Modeling:** - Select property package → `references/property-packages.md` - Configure components and phases → `references/property-packages.md` - Define thermodynamic methods → `references/property-packages.md` - Add reaction packages → `references/property-packages.md` - Create custom properties → `references/custom-models.md` **Unit Operations:** - Use generic models (mixers, splitters, heaters) → `references/generic-models.md` …
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How to install
mdr add jkitchin/knowhow/idaes@sha256:f7f1f99eddb64727The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260307.3e74b2f, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Nov 29, 2025 and Mar 7, 2026, about one every 98 days.
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| git:20260307.3e74b2f latest | 2026-03-07 | 3e74b2f | 19,956 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20251129.e214096 | 2025-11-29 | e214096 | 19,954 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
jkitchin/knowhow · 42 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_c7wnjklqflwbdwi2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jkitchin/knowhow/idaes GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f7f1f99eddb647276792a074a94a3718ea5c5f7a561ef19f36880c45f9108eff
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.